Democracy and Social Change

Mi Park

ISBN 10: 3039110667 / ISBN 13: 9783039110667

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jul 2008, 2008

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Neuware -South Korea experienced a transition from authoritarianism to democracy in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1980s, hundreds of university students in South Korea went to factories and shantytowns to organize the working class and the urban poor. While politicizing almost all issues extant in South Korean society, they mobilized thousands of students into formidable street demonstrations that eventually forced the Chun administration (1980-1987) to carry out sweeping political reforms. The book explains the emergence of the radical student movement and the subsequent political transformation in South Korea in the last two decades. It pays particular attention to the various organizing methods, the patterns of changing ideologies, and political tactics of the student movement. With extensive interview materials taken from former student activists, the book provides insightful insiders' knowledge of what had happened in the student movement. By situating the South Korean student movement in its broad socio-historical contexts, it investigates the interplay of structural forces and agency to explain the political transformation of South Korea between 1980 and 2000. 292 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Democracy and Social Change
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jul 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3039110667
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783039110667
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 220 L x 150 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 220 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 405 grammes

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Synopsis

South Korea experienced a transition from authoritarianism to democracy in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1980s, hundreds of university students in South Korea went to factories and shantytowns to organize the working class and the urban poor. While politicizing almost all issues extant in South Korean society, they mobilized thousands of students into formidable street demonstrations that eventually forced the Chun administration (1980-1987) to carry out sweeping political reforms. The book explains the emergence of the radical student movement and the subsequent political transformation in South Korea in the last two decades. It pays particular attention to the various organizing methods, the patterns of changing ideologies, and political tactics of the student movement. With extensive interview materials taken from former student activists, the book provides insightful insiders' knowledge of what had happened in the student movement. By situating the South Korean student movement in its broad socio-historical contexts, it investigates the interplay of structural forces and agency to explain the political transformation of South Korea between 1980 and 2000.

À propos de l?auteur

The Author : Mi Park holds a doctorate in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (L.S.E). She is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Dalhousie University in Canada.